Two gay men obtained a baby through surrogacy. The left condemned anyone who criticized them. A day later, it was revealed that one of the men is a convicted child sex predator. Why is surrogacy legal for someone like that? Why is it legal at all? We ll discuss. Also, the controversy over the Sidney Sweeney American Eagle ad proves that wokeness isn t quite dead yet. White people are being hunted down and assaulted in Cincinnati, but the police chief is more worried about the mean things people are saying on social media. And a WNBA player has her wig fall off during a game. We ll talk about that and more today on The Matt Walsh Show.
00:47:39.760And there's an emergency meeting with the refs and coaches and officials because some fans somewhere in the stands made fun of the player for losing her wig.
00:47:49.280And we could get from the reaction, it was only one fan, apparently.
00:47:53.280Now, again, this happens in men's sports.
00:47:55.260If someone's wearing a wig and it falls off, the whole stadium would be erupting in laughter.
00:48:00.800And it would be, it would be, it would be, there'd be no way.
00:48:04.860If you tried to kick everybody out, you'd be kicking out the entire stadium of people.
00:48:09.760Uh, in this case, one fan makes a joke about it and gets kicked out.
00:48:13.720How do they even know that there was one?
00:48:14.980Well, it's because there's only five people in the stands.
00:48:16.580So, you know, they, they, so they, um, there's a 20, they really did.
00:48:21.380They kicked out 20% of the audience because there was one person.
00:48:27.380And then, uh, it's just, but again, you go back to the world of men's sports.
00:48:33.760If you've ever been, if you've ever been to a game, a basketball game, football game, hockey, whatever.
00:48:39.760You know, that in men's sports fans shout the absolute most vile and vulgar things all game long.
00:48:48.320I mean, I went to a Raven Steelers game a few years back in Baltimore and, um, it was a great game.
00:48:55.480We won, but the fans were screaming like it, they, they were death wishes, profanity, ancient curses, like these almost guttural noises that the fans are making.
00:49:12.920These summoning the ghosts of their ancestors to murder the Steelers in their sleep brutal.
00:49:19.940And yet in the WNBA, if you crack a smile, when a woman's wig falls off, they stop the game and remove you from the stadium.
00:49:27.300So that's, uh, all that to say women and men, kind of the theme of that's emerged today in the show, women and men are very different, uh, very different.
00:49:39.180And this is also why men's sports is just a much, much, much better product.
00:49:54.860Like, I think we should all stop talking about the WNBA, but how do I can't not talk about it?
00:49:59.640I mean, it's her wig fell off of the, I have to talk.
00:50:02.040Why do I have this show if I'm not going to talk about that?
00:50:05.020Uh, and yet at the same time, it's a little bit of an internal crisis for me because I do think that we all should stop talking about the WNBA.
00:50:14.660And there's this effort among some people to make the WNBA relevant or to pretend that it's a good product is, uh, is that's also troubling to me.
00:50:26.560Hopefully, hopefully by now her, her wig is back on and, um, she'll use some better glue next time and everything will be fine in the world again.
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00:52:19.700Our YouTube feeds are full of videos of people telling us how bad seed oils are, and it's in almost all the chips, along with a bunch of other stuff that I can't pronounce, because I can't pronounce anything.
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00:54:42.700Every so often you hear a story about an extremely rich person who's decided to disinherit his own children.
00:54:52.180Now, there are various articles about how Warren Buffett, Bill Gates, Simon Cowell, George Lucas, Mark Zuckerberg, Jackie Chan, etc.
00:54:57.420have all decided that their children won't receive any kind of significant inheritance.
00:55:02.300Of course, it's easy for rich people to set up various trusts and LLCs that funnel a large sum of the money to their children,
00:55:07.340even if their children technically don't get any direct inheritance.
00:55:10.560And there's obviously no way to verify any of these pledges and whether they're carried out or not, since all these rich people are still alive.
00:55:16.500That said, there's a clear trend here that's impossible to ignore.
00:55:19.920At a minimum, it's now highly fashionable for prominent people to say that they are disinheriting their own children.
00:55:27.460The latest example comes from someone named Tony Hawks, who is apparently not the skateboarding legend Tony Hawk.
00:55:33.940Instead, Tony Hawks is described as a British comedian.
00:56:40.980Some people get a little leg up, but they're not going to get anything.
00:56:44.840And I don't know why I think that way.
00:56:47.280I just think it isn't fair because my son hasn't done anything to other than be born to me to earn that money.
00:56:57.380So I think we need to think again myself.
00:56:59.860I know I'm pretty much on my own on this, but I'm not sure whether just an automatic leaving things to family is relevant anymore.
00:57:10.720It used to be, but I'm not so sure anymore.
00:57:13.460What are you going to do with this money if you don't leave it to your son?
00:57:16.060Are you going to spend, spend something like Viv Nicholson?
00:57:18.160No, what I'm actually doing is I'm setting up a charitable trust, leaving Arlo a job if he wants to take it, working for that charity, helping to give money away to good causes.
00:57:30.180As you can tell, he's a really funny guy.
00:57:32.960Tony Hawks oozes charisma and brings mirth wherever he goes.
00:57:35.940But in this instance, Tony Hawks wasn't just bringing down the house with some high quality British humor.
00:57:41.180He also declared with a straight face that, quote, it seems very unfair for children to gain access to a large amount of money by an accident of birth.
00:57:48.100Now, put aside the godless, nihilistic line of thinking here and just assume that his premise is accurate.
00:57:54.660Let's assume that every human birth is some kind of cosmic accident, whatever that means.
00:57:58.980And therefore, people don't deserve money from their parents because their whole life and their circumstances of their birth are accidental.
00:58:05.820If that's the case, why do these random unnamed charities deserve the money?
00:58:11.220Aren't those charities composed of people who are also born by accident?
00:58:14.280And isn't it a gigantic accident that they're getting a bunch of money just because Tony Hawks happened to look them up and send them some cash before he died?
00:58:23.980There's really no way to make sense of anything he just said, but it's a common line of argument you see all the time on the left.
00:58:30.160Same kind of thinking that yields brilliant insights like,
00:58:33.020billionaires don't deserve their money, so therefore we should steal their money and give it to barely sentient government bureaucrats instead.
00:58:39.580Except in this case, the argument's even worse because he's depriving his own bloodline in the process.
00:58:44.400I mean, let's assume for a second that Tony Hawks means every word he says and that his planned charitable organization isn't some kind of tax avoidance scheme, which it could very well be.
00:58:52.640The truth is, increasingly, a lot of people are doing the same thing that he's doing.
00:58:56.660I mean, it's why you hear this kind of, we talked about it on the show before, I think, this is becoming a very popular thing for parents.
00:59:01.080Parents are increasingly cutting children out of their wills or reducing the amount of money that some of their children receive if they're leaving a will at all.
00:59:08.560Recently, the business school at Washington University in St. Louis posted a summary of research into inheritances and wills that was conducted by researchers in the European Economic Review.
00:59:17.900And they looked at U.S. data from the Health and Retirement Study from 1995 to 2014.
00:59:22.440Robert Pollack, an economics professor who worked on this research, said this is a trend that's becoming much more common.
00:59:48.560And, quote, we've shown that bequests are much more unequal now than in the recent past and much more unequal than generally recognized.
00:59:55.460According to the paper, quote, the proportion of parents ages 50 and over with more than one child who report having wills in which they treat their children unequally increased steadily between 1995 and 2014.
01:00:05.580It's now nearly 40 percent, up double digits from just a couple of decades ago.
01:00:09.360So, in other words, relationships between parents and their children, or at least some of their children, are on the decline.
01:00:15.380And parents are leaving less money to their children as a result.
01:00:19.140And in many cases, they aren't leaving wills at all, leaving children to fight over the money in court, which is just an extremely irresponsible thing.
01:00:27.260I can't, I just don't understand, especially older parents who you haven't bothered to make a will.
01:00:31.520You're just leaving your family to deal with this.
01:00:35.180They're finding other uses for the money that they've saved from spending on themselves or donating it to charity, as Tony Hawks claims he's doing.
01:00:42.520What this means is that we're living in the first generation in American history and world history that is just disregarding the concepts of legacy and birthright on a large scale.
01:00:53.260This is not the only evidence of that.
01:00:55.080We see many other cases, but this is one symptom of this problem.
01:00:58.360For millions of Americans, it's becoming an appealing prospect to make their children's lives more difficult, all for the benefit of complete strangers.
01:01:07.360That's the fair outcome, says Tony Hawks.
01:01:10.540Better to give random nonprofits a leg up or help other people's children than your own children.
01:01:19.940Even though, again, the people that you're giving the charity to and the people that the charity is giving the money to, they didn't earn it either.
01:01:24.400And this is the kind of madness that you hear almost exclusively among boomers.
01:01:31.200I mean, these are people who grew up in a very different economy, one where young Americans weren't competing against millions of foreign nationals for entry-level jobs,
01:01:39.340and where the government wasn't constantly printing money and devaluing every dollar they earned.
01:01:43.720To use Tony Hawks' term, boomers benefited from an actual accident of birth,
01:01:50.260which is that they spent their working years in a country that's now unrecognizable.
01:01:55.900And now, as we've seen so often, they're pulling up the ladder, which is indefensible.
01:02:01.780And to be clear, it would be indefensible even if the economy hadn't changed in the ways that I just outlined.
01:02:06.060And leaving your fortune for other people's kids, but not your own, it's the weirdest kind of selfishness.
01:02:12.080It amounts to spite and resentment towards your own bloodline.
01:02:15.980And I will just never understand this kind of thing.
01:02:20.400I'm not even 40 yet, despite appearances.
01:02:24.240And already, one of the main things that drives me in life is the desire to leave a legacy for my children.
01:02:31.080And that desire seems to be less and less common.
01:02:36.540I made this point on X the other day, and one of the top replies, a comment with over 200 likes,
01:02:50.720This is a popular attitude these days.
01:02:53.100It's like insanely, gratuitously selfish, but it's a very popular attitude.
01:02:59.760It would have been totally alien to your grandparents, this attitude.
01:03:04.920I'm going to spend every dime so you don't get it.
01:03:08.040Your grandparents did not have, and you as a boomer, you benefited from the fact that your parents or grandparents didn't have that attitude.